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Apr 01 2023

Resolution of misconception of overfitting: Differentiating learning curves from Occam curves

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Preamble Occam (Wikipedia)A misconception that overfitted model can be identified with the  amount of generalisation gap between model's training and test sets over its learning curves is still out there. Even in some prominent online lectures and blog posts, this misconception is now repeated...

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Nov 01 2018

Contact: Occam’s Razor and Films from the Future

Andrew Maynard

William of Occam was a fourteenth-century English philosopher, friar, and theologian. From historic accounts, he was sharp thinker, and a somewhat controversial religious figure in his time. Yet, these days, he is best known for the scientific rule of thumb that bears his name. The post Contact:...

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